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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3: Orientalism Now, Part IV: The Latest Phase.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When was Princeton's department of Near Eastern Studies founded?
(a) 1865.
(b) 1800.
(c) 1911.
(d) 1927.

2. Who wrote The Struggle for Existence in Human Society?
(a) E. M. Forster.
(b) Henry Huxley.
(c) V. W. Richards.
(d) Henri Baudet.

3. When was Silvestre de Sacy born?
(a) 1693.
(b) 1789.
(c) 1757.
(d) 1805.

4. When did the Church Council of Vienne establish a series of chairs in "Arabic, Greek, Heber, and Syriac at Paris, Oxford, Bologna, Avignon, and Salamanca" (50)?
(a) 1312.
(b) 1449.
(c) 1195.
(d) 1402.

5. Who is the author of Muhammedanisches Recht?
(a) Claude Levi-Strauss.
(b) Henri Baudet.
(c) Henry Thomas Colebrooke.
(d) Eduard Sachau.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is described by the author as "a crucial link in the intellectual chain connecting the White-Man-as-expert to the modern Orient" in Chapter 3 (235)?

2. What are the four elements described by the author that established eighteenth century thought on the structures on which modern Orientalism depend?

3. Who wrote the two-volume logbook titled Ving-sept Ans d'Historie des Etudes Orientales?

4. When was the nation of Israel created?

5. Who rote The Romantic Agony?

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